Jannik has the highest average of the season for the ratio of time spent on the pitch to prizes received. Alcaraz and Zverev on the podium, Cobolli in fifth place
In the hourglass of top players, time is marked by golden sand. Time (on the pitch) is money for professionals who collect important prizes whether they win or lose. There are those who, like the Tennis Connected website, have taken the trouble to do the math in Sinner and company’s pockets, making a meticulous calculation of how much playing time on the court is worth and drawing up a special ranking. Jannik Sinner is number 1 not only in the world but also in earnings per minute played. The average makes a certain impression, around 1403 euros for every sixty seconds played (converted from 1611 dollars). A fact that perfectly summarizes his season with very few misses, only three defeats at the Australian Open, Doha and Roland Garros, and a winning ride with triumphs in the five ATPs that have been played so far: Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, Madrid and the Internationals. Quick and well, with an unprecedented yield per minute, which places him at the top for efficiency between time spent on the pitch and monetization.
Flavio is there
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Behind him is Carlos Alcaraz with an average of 1320 euros per minute although he has played many fewer tournaments than Sinner. Carlos has been out of action since mid-April due to a right wrist injury which will keep him out of the court at least until after Wimbledon. In reality, the stop could even be prolonged given that the Australian Open champion has not yet resumed training. Sascha Zverev is a little more distant, but still breaks the thousand euro barrier. The German tennis player has accumulated 6.34 million euros in prizes, equivalent to 1149 euros per minute, highlighting the economic benefits linked to winning Roland Garros and constantly reaching the advanced stages of the tournaments in which he participated. The German probably pays for a greater amount of minutes played, often in long and hard-fought matches. This lowers his average, despite very high earnings. Different story for Novak Djokovic, who remains a special case. The Serbian champion, despite no longer being at the height of his career in terms of playing volume, continues to maintain a very competitive yield per minute, around 748 euros. While surprisingly, in fifth place in this special ranking we find another Italian player, Flavio Cobolli, who closes the top five with 685 euros per minute. The Roland Garros final brought him over two million and 700 thousand euros. The Parisian Slam also raised the economic elevator for Matteo Arnaldi who broke through to 483 euros per minute.
one year ago
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In 2025, at the end of the season, a ranking of earnings per hour played was also drawn up, and Sinner was in the lead there too: around 130,000 euros for every hour spent on the pitch, ahead of Alcaraz (just over 100,000) and much further away than the others. A year in which Sinner had won two Slams, the Australian Open and Wimbledon, but where he had to miss four Masters 1000 due to the three-month disqualification agreed with Wada for the Clostebol case. He had not been able to play Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo and Madrid, returning to Rome with the defeat in the final by Alcaraz. This year he did it again, winning them all. Time is money.
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